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“The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.” ― Diane Von Furstenberg
CHICAGO NEWS
• The Jackie Robinson West Little League may move to play under the Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth youth baseball leagues. The little league was stripped of its Little League U.S. title last month after the parent league ruled ringers were brought in from outside approved boundaries. [DNA INFO CHICAGO]
NATIONAL NEWS
• An Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a night time training mission in Florida near the Eglin Air Force Base, with seven Marines and four soldiers presumed dead, currently unaccounted for. [REUTERS]
• Categrized under EW! Dunkin donuts in a statement yesterday stated it would stop using titanium dioxide nano particles in its donut recipe after being called out by an organization called As You Sow which commissioned independent laboratory tests. Titanium dioxide nano materials can be found in sunscreen, can cause DNA and chromosomal damage, organ damage, inflammation, brain damage, and genital malformations. So a donut that should consist of no more than 10 ingredients, has about 28. [WASHINGTON POST]
WORLD NEWS
• Leading female advocates of disarmament will formally announce their intent to walk across the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea in effort to hep end the state of war in the divided Korean Peninsula and get a permanent peace treaty to replace the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War. The groups efforts are being organized by Gloria Steinem and Suzy Kim-professor of Korean history at Rutgers University with the original idea from Christine Ahn, a Korean-American activist who founded a group called Women De-Militarize the Zone. [NY TIMES]
SPORTS
• Ahead of their upcoming highly anticipated pay-per-view fight May 2 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will make a public appearance together at a press conference today from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, the only one they will have before fight week. It will air live on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” at 4:30 p.m. ET. [ESPN]
BUSINESS
• The world’s largest provider of mobile network technology, Sweden’s Ericsson AB will cut 2,200 jobs in Sweden, mainly in research and development and supply, as part of its part of efficiency program to profitability. [WSJ]
CELEBRITIES
• Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson crashed Paris Fashion Week as their characters Derek Zoolander and Hansel to announce the release of Zoolander 2 and closed out the Maison Valentino fashion show to applause and a stunned celebrity front row. Filming starts in Rome on April 7, with a tentative release date of released on Feb. 12, 2016 from Paramount Pictures [WWD]
FASHION
• Vera Bradley is set to close its New Haven, Indiana manufacturing facility.
beginning on May 9, 2015 with only 5% of the company’s products being manufactured there. Company CEO Robert Wallstrom said in a statement “it costs approximately 90% more to manufacture goods domestically than in overseas factories, and our domestic manufacturing costs have continued to rise year over year.” [INDIANA BUSINESS]
LOOK OF THE DAY
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